Friendsickness in the Transition to College: Precollege Predictors and College Adjustment Correlates.

By E. Paul, S. Brier. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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The Relationship of Loneliness and Social Support with College Freshmen's Academic Performance and Persistence (2006, background): “For example, Paul and Brier (2001) indicated that both men and women experienced friendsickness at school that was related to college adjustment, and Vaux (1988) found a relationship between social support and loneliness for both men and women.”
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Stress and Coping in First Year Undergraduates. (2013, background): “Without friends, students have fewer resources at their disposal to assist them in the transition to university, and are more likely to consider dropping out (Paul & Brier, 2001), as David reported in this study.”
The Role of Organized Activities in Facilitating Social Adaptation Across the Transition to College (2007, background): “These changes often lead to increased feelings of loneliness as emerging adults cope with the absence of established social support networks as well as the challenge of forming a new one (Paul & Brier, 2001; Shaver, Furman, & Buhrmester, 1985).”
The Importance of Friends (2007, background): “These include homesickness and friendsickness (Paul & Brier, 2001), depression, obsessionality, psychological disturbance, absent-mindedness (Fisher & Hood, 1987), a sense of isolation (Brooks & DuBois, 1995), a drop in academic grades (Levitz & Noel, 1989), and increased interpersonal conflict…”
Do First-Year College Students' Expectations Align with their First-Year Experiences? (2005, background): “Paul and Brier (2001) found that social experiences in college did not meet prematriculation expectations of first-year students.”
The Role of Peer Relationships in Adjustment to College (2008, methodology): “Yet, as they transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood and from high school into college, many students’ friendships end or at least change due to physical separations or contrast ing life goals (Paul & Brier, 2001; Rose, 1984).”
The Benefits of Facebook "Friends: " Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites (2007, background): “For instance, Parks and Floyd (1996) report that one-third of their respondents later met their online correspondents face-to-face.”
Gender differences in social network development via mobile phone text messages: A longitudinal study (2005, background): “Many studies have investigated first-year undergraduate students’ friendship formation and longitudinal changes in their face-to-face (FTF) social network structures (Hays & Oxley, 1986; Paul & Brier, 2001), but little is known about the effects of their MPTM usage on social network development.”
Navigating the College Years: Developmental Trajectories and Gender Differences in Psychological Functioning, Cognitive-Affective Strategies, and Social Well-Being (2020, background): “…overall (Desjardins & Leadbeater, 2016; Galambos, Barker, & Krahn, 2006), it also is noted as a time of social and contextual disruption (Kadison & DiGeronimo, 2004; Paul & Brier, 2001) and a period when many psychological disorders first manifest (McGorry, Purcell, Goldstone, & Amminger, 2011).”